“Beautiful Anna gets to stay for good on the island of Tjörn”
“In the three years she has looked out over the north Sea from the island of Tjörn.”
“– She was very much loved and appreciated, both by me and by visitors, ” says Peter Lennby.”
“Since 2007, organizes the Sculpture in Pilane annually exhibits, around 100 000 visitors are counted every year. Actually, it was intended that Anna – who is a 14-meter high sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa – would, after a year, like the other sculptures in the fornlämningsområdet.”
“We change the art every summer, but she was stuck here,” says Peter Lennby, artistic director at Sculpture in Pilane.”
“She has stood out all year around in three years?”
“– Yes, it is a work you do not pick down in the brådrasket. She would have gone back to Barcelona, but in the past six months I have worked with to try to keep her. We have the not-so-good economy that we can afford to buy a work whose price tag is sek 19 million – but we have gotten the price down. There is a lot of money anyway – an eight-digit amount.”
“Exactly how much beautiful Anna cost, we must not know. It is a secret.”
